Word of the Day: Uncharted waters

This episode was published on Friday, November 26, 2021. Our Word of the Day is ‘uncharted waters.’ If you're heading off into new and unknown areas, you're going into uncharted waters. Technology and change often lead to uncharted waters. You can read along as you listen by clicking  copying and pasting this link into your preferred browser: https://links.artisanenglish.jp/UnchartedWaters Try a Weekly Thursday Quiz from ArtisanEnglish.jp. You listen to the podcast episodes. Now check to see if you learned from what you heard. Visit ArtisanEnglish.jp and go to the Weekly Quizzes page. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/Quiz I also offer FREE 20-minute lessons twice a month for anyone. All you have to do is sign up to win. Look under Book a Private Lesson at ArtisanEnglish.jp for Saturday Free-For-Anyone https://links.artisanenglish.jp/SatFree4Any1and Sunday Free-For-Anyone  https://links.artisanenglish.jp/SunFree4Any1. Below are five terms from today’s episode that may have been new for you. Catalyst: In chemistry, a catalyst speeds up chemical reactions without itself being changed. Events that cause significient change are also catalysts. Old hat: Old hat is a term used to describe something that has been done before, is no longer interesting or exciting or has been long out of use. Quaint: Quaint is a word used to describe the countryside where things are more traditional than in cities and life moves at a slower pace. Upheaval: Upheaval means great change, not great as in wonderful, but great as in a large amount of something. Disasters cause upheaval in your life. Metaverse (lesson): On September 21, 2021, Japan officially launched its new Digital Agency, which is tasked with pushing the digitalization of the public sector. Keep in mind this is a government whose employees are in love with the fax machine. That's right. Fax machines are not extinct; they just all migrated to Japan - the land that forgot technology. While Japan is finally trying to get online, the Internet has died - it's now the Splinternet. First, it was blockchain technology made famous by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Even Facebook made an attempt at A World Currency. NFTs have boomed in 2021, and to be honest, everything will soon be replaced by the Metaverse.  Members of the gaming community already know what I'm talking about. Come on, everybody, keep up. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/Metaverse